DETAIL IS YET TO BE WORKED OUT FOR SENIORS' PROPERTY TAX BREAK

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

A DuPage County official has advised senior citizens to be patient and hold off for now in seeking to take advantage of a new state law that allows them to freeze the assessed values of their property.

Patricia L. Musson, the county's supervisor of assessments, said seniors had been frantically calling her office because under the law, the deadline for applying for a freeze was Thursday.

But, Musson said, the deadline is impossible to meet because the state has not prepared application forms or drafted rules on how eligibility is to be determined.

The law is intended to benefit those who are 65 or older with household incomes less than $35,000 a year.

Musson said her office will mail information and applications to seniors as soon as they are available and as soon as the effective date of the law is clarified.